Regional Roots Quotes

The Bay area made me who I am, and it only felt right to go back there.

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.

I'll be a Bay kid for the rest of my life. That's in my veins; that's in my bones.

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

I know that it's the southern film industries that have made me an actor, and that is where people relate to me the most. I would never give it up or separate myself from it.

Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman.

In the deep corner of my heart, I'm a Chicagoan, but it's been covered over by 20 years of living in the Bay Area.

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

Accents are not for comic relief anymore; they root the character to the place they're from.

I was born in the Northeast, and I have Midwestern parents.

At times, yes, I have been typecast. But I love having a regional identity in my songs. I want to deliver music that reflects the culture of our soil.

I was born in Boston, but then I went down to Virginia. We spent a little time in Maryland, and then were in Virginia by the time I was seven. What struck me the most was that my mother thought that she had gone to the middle of nowhere, and we would still drive four hours for her to get her hair cut in Washington, D.C.

We tend to want to stay here in Louisiana as Louisiana people. We've just got to be mindful that there are other things out there, and we really need to open our kids' minds to get them to go to college. Get them to get away. Then come back and help the next ones behind us.

I grew up in Birmingham, Ala. Nobody really blow up from Birmingham, Ala.

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.

I'm a child of provincial France.

I'm really drawn to comedy. I grew up in the South, so I'm drawn to all things southern, so my role in 'Getting On' has been fun for me to play something southern - I always feel like I understand those characters more because of where I was raised.

I just went home to Illinois, and I asked my family, 'Are you guys planning on talking in those accents the whole time I'm home?' And my mother said, 'You used to talk like that, too, Tasha.' And I said, 'Yes, but you see, I've reinvented myself. Do you have any idea who I think I am?'

I am half Bengali and half Marathi.

I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

Most of the people in Donegal knew me long before I was an actor. But even since then, they don't talk that much about it, which is very nice.

I'm proud to be from the North-East.

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.